“Vanity rejects all healthy nourishment and lives exclusively on the poison of flattery.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Die Eitelkeit weist jede gesunde Nahrung von sich, lebt ausschließlich von dem Gifte der Schmeichelei und gedeiht dabei in üppigster Fülle.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 35.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

“It is possible for your ideas to cause chemical reactions that impede your body’s ability to accept nourishment. If you believe that the body is evil, the purest health-food diet will or may do you little good at all, while if you have a healthy desire and respect for your physical body, a diet of TV dinners, and even fast foods, may well keep you healthy and nourished.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 259

“Vegetarianism is necessary for the very rich and the very poor. The poor need it because it is cheap and nourishing. The rich, in order to cleanse all the poisons from the corpses that have accumulated in their overfed organism.”

Natalia Nordman (1863–1914) Russian author

Povarennaia kneiga dlia golodaiushchikh. Quoted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), vol. 108 https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=I7ZkAAAAMAAJ, ed. by Jessica Menzo (Gale Group, 2002), p. 169.

“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Life and Love
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

“However, the voice of the rationalist is a sound social reaction, it is an act of self-defense by society against the dangers of being dominated by uncontrollable forces such as a saint proclaiming a revelation or a madman affirming the products of his sick imagination, and finally a fraud who wants to convert others to his views for the sake of his egoistic and unworthy purposes. It is better to rely on the safe but modest nourishment of reason than, in fear of missing the voice of ‘Truth’, to let oneself be fed with all sorts of uncontrollable nourishment which may more often be poisonous than healthy and beneficial.”

Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963) Philosopher, logician

Source: Problems and theories of philosophy, 1949, p. 49, as cited in Łukasiewicz, 2016.

“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Evelyn Waugh book Brideshead Revisited

Epilogue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”

Morgan Spurlock (1970) American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer

Source: Don't Eat This Book

“It [music] is the nourishment for my joy to live.”

Yoko Shimomura (1967) Japanese video game composer

WDR.de, Partituren für PC - Die virtuose Musik der Computerspiele http://www.wdr5.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Sendungen/Scala/2008/08/Manuskripte/08_20_MusikComputerspiele_01.pdf

“All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud.”

John Ruskin book Modern Painters

Volume V, Preface (1860).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)

“All is vanity, you know, ALL in the long run is but vanity and vexation of spirit.”

Joseph Heller book God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“Vanity rejects all healthy nourishment and lives exclusively on the poison of flattery.”

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